Triple
T18463992
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pirates of Silicon Valley |
E451109
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mike Markkula |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Mike Markkula | Statement: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, featuresCharacter, Mike Markkula]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Markkula Context triple: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, featuresCharacter, Mike Markkula]
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A.
Mike Markkula
chosen
Mike Markkula is an American entrepreneur and early investor who played a crucial role in the founding and initial growth of Apple Computer, serving as its first major backer and a key executive.
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B.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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C.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
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D.
John Chambers
John Chambers is the son of American writer and former Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, known primarily in relation to his father's prominent role in the Alger Hiss case and Cold War history.
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E.
John Chambers
John Chambers was an acclaimed American makeup artist best known for his groundbreaking prosthetic work on films like "Planet of the Apes," which earned him a special Academy Award.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69d8d38345688190b565eac2e4cd7935 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e52a8190508190a74b1d3482364905 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:33 a.m.